CVE-2008-1218

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Dovecot 1.0.x before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.rc3, when using blocking passdbs, allows remote attackers to bypass the password check via a password containing TAB characters, which are treated as argument delimiters that enable the skip_password_check field to be specified.

Affected products

dovecot: through 1.0.12; through 1.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29226
http://secunia.com/advisories/29295
http://secunia.com/advisories/29364
http://secunia.com/advisories/29385
http://secunia.com/advisories/29396
http://secunia.com/advisories/29557
http://secunia.com/advisories/32151
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0108
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000064.html

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